Detective Rmulo Aitken is hired by a client to investigate the conditions in which his mother lives in a nursing home, suspecting some kind of abuse or mistreatment. To do this, after interviewing several candidates, he selects Sergio Chamy, 83, to work as an undercover spy.
Sergio Chamy will have to report daily to Rmulo, without arousing suspicion, the situations that occurred in the retirement home, trying to find any anomaly, especially around his client’s mother.
What would be Sergio’s surprise when he found an unexpected reality and discovered that the truth in question is located where it was least expected. An excellent documentary that is viewed as a fiction tape due to its narrative agility.
He refers to The Loneliness of the Dying (FCE, 2012), by the German sociologist Norbert Elias, when he points out: others, normal age groups find it difficult, understandably, to establish a relationship of empathy with older people regarding their experience of life. old age.
Agent Mole had its premiere on February 19, 2021, on Netflix.
On the Festival Circuit The Mole Agent opens on January 25, 2020, at the Sundance Film Festival. He has been awarded the Audience Award, at the San Sebastian Festival 2020, the NBR Award, from the National Board of Review, USA, 2021, the Cinema Eye Honors Award, from the Cinema Eye Honors Awards, USA, 2021. He has been nominated for the Academy Award 2021, in the category of Best Foreign Language Film.
The young documentary filmmaker Maite Alberdi Soto (1983, Santiago de Chile, Chile) has made: Carrete Down (2004), Los trapezistas (2005), Las peluqueras (2008), El salvavidas (2011), Propaganda (2014), La once ( 2014), POV (2015, TV Series), Los nios (2016), Yo soy de aqu (2016), Dios (2019), among other works.
The mole agent (The Mole Agent / Chile / Spain / Germany / United States / Holland / 2020). Address: Maite Alberdi. With: Sergio Chamy, Rmulo Aitken, Marta Olivares, Berta Ureta, Zoila Gonzlez, Petronila Abarca, Rubira Olivares: Script: Maite Alberdi; Photography: Pablo Valds; Music: Vincent van Warmerdam; Edition: Carolina Syraquian. Duration: 90 minutes.
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